Comments on: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Coupe - First Ride

General Motors is doing pretty good and I actually like this redesign after seeing it in some videos and not just pictures. I hope the next Camaro is much, much lighter, better interior, excellent styling, and unbeatable performance in this category. Camaro's are sometimes heavier than Mustangs according to history, but history also proves the Camaro is the muscle car to knock the saddles off that pony.

Certainly no surprise that the LS7 ended up in the Camaro. It sounds like they will simply use up the remaining engines and parts leftover from Corvette for this car. Only 1900 Z06's were built from '10-'12, so they came out with the 427 convertible and built over 2500 of those for MY2013. Oppenheiser says 3000-4000 over 2-3 years so that sounds about right.

I'm guessing quite a few of these will be bought and "put away" as a collectable. Factory 427 Camaros don't come along very often.

I'm still amazed GM is putting 40 treadwear tires on this car? I guess with such a limited production run , no sense in offering an alternative? How long do 40 rated tires last? I guess it depends on how many laps around the track? In the best case, can't imagine a set lasting more than 4-5K?

I am happy that GM builds Camaros like these, but for buyers who would like the sound and feel of a V8, but can't afford these prices how about a low cost V8 option ($500-1000 extra) for the base Camaro using an engine like the 4.8 or 5.3 ? It seems that GM would sell a lot more of those than these high dollar specials. To me there's too much of a gulf between the V6 and SS models. I think a Z/28 and ZL1 are not needed, a car like a V8 RS is.

How about an affordable V8 option for the base Camaro? I'd like to see the 4.8 or 5.3 as an option for those of us that like the Camaro, don't want a V6, but can't afford the current V8 powered Camaro models.

I raise issues that others should care about. Grow up people, the Earth is at stake. I know GM won't sell many of these cars... Wimpy GM doesn't sell much of anything compared to Toyota and GM (far better companies). The point is these cars shouldn't exist because they put the wrong ideas into the less-developed minds of the masses.

Even IF the climate thing has all been a hoax so what? It's put a lot of folks to work either trying to prove or disprove it, or doing research and most importantly, the modern automobile has not suffered because of it now has it? If anything it has helped the automotive industry .. today's cars are far less polluting yet producing more horsepower etc than they ever have ...

1. If so few of them are sold, how is their existence so deplorable? If they sold as many of these as, say, Camrys (USA) or Golfs (EU), then I would grant your point. Maybe.
2. "GM doesn't sell much of anything compared to Toyota and GM" -- huh? And is "wimpy" really the word you meant to use?

Oh, and I do NOT deny climate change exists, and I don't think that I have a "less-developed mind" full of "wrong ideas". I'm actually a professional philosopher who works at a university, and as much as I wish I could applaud your bravado, you don't have much of an argument, I'm afraid.

Um what? I would suggest you do do some more reading there CD282.
Their conclusions where anything but what your suggesting, your information is fictitious. Il save the debate, this is not the place for it but go do some more research.

The very fact that you just posted a Forbes article and tried to pass it off as scientific is an indication of how uninformed you are. Science comes from the primary literature, not some right wing magazine with nearly all cited information out of context. That was a laughable attempt.

I am a Geoscientist. More specifically a Hyrdrogeologist with 6 years of post secondary education working in the enviromental sector. If you wish to continue to persue this than please post on my C/D homepage.

You will note that I am a car junkie and by no means screaming that cars are killing us. They are just a very small piece of the pie.

You're kidding, right? Forbes is hardly considered The Onion. So try this, dispute the experts, no need to insult little ole me. I'm posting here for everyone to see, and you really should be keeping up with your peers, not just a small bubble of politically corrupted types...

Forbes is a business magazine, not a publisher of peer-reviewed scientific studies. Likewise, the Daily Mail is the UK equivalent of the NY Post, so neither of the articles you posted are really reputable from a scientific standpoint.

Maybe if you posted some peer-reviewed research, I would be more inclined to agree with you, but until then, Rubixified and others are correct.

I've never been a Camaro enthusiast and for the most part I'm still not but I have to give respect where its due. The 1LE, Z/28 and ZL1 are monsters but man these things are pricey. I'd probably still purchase the Boss 302 as I just really like that car and its MUCH lighter.

I will gladly pay more for a Camaro built to this spec than a Corvette. The reasons are varied and somewhat complicated to explain, but simply put; the Z/28 by design will weed out the poseurs in the same manner that the Corvette attracts them.